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and greater part of the nation would 
ultimately triumph, by the pains 
the court of Vienna had taken to 
dispel prejudices unjustly excited, 
concerning the nature of the con- 
cert. hy 
The complaints alleged against 
the court of Vienna, not only do 
not furnish the smallest apparent 
motive for an attack, but it Is evi- 
dent that they are so many objects 
of provocation and aggression 
committed by those who reign in 
France. 
They presume to blame the court 
of Vienna for the protection it has 
refused at home, and caused to be 
denied elsewhere to the enterprizes 
and affairs of the French emigrants; 
‘they who did protect and foment 
the conspiracies for a rebellion in 
the Austrian Netherlands! ‘Their 
confessions and public measures 
since the attack, prove, that in the 
hope of succeeding in these treach- 
erous actions and practices of the 
same kind, tending to seduce the 
faithful Austrian troops, their chief 
confidence was placed. : 
It is they who excited a dispute 
between France and the German 
empire, by depriving several Ger- 
man princes of rights and enjoy- 
ments assured by a possession of a 
century and a half, grounded on so- 
lemn treaties. Their excuse against 
the obligatory force of these trea- 
ties, derived from a pretended in- 
consistency with later and sponta- 
neous laws of one of the contract- 
ing parties, is grounded on a prin- 
ciple that overthrows all treaties. 
And that decree of the 14th of Ja- 
nuary, by which the National As- 
sembly, setting up at the same time 
for judge and party, has assumed 
the power of passing an arbitrary 
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sentence on the manner and suffi- 
ciency of a disposition which ought 
to be free amongindependent states, 
and is nothing else but one more 
attempt on the public right of na- 
tions. iia 
They, who for six months past 
were occupied in making prepara- 
tions for war and attack on the 
frontiers of the Austrian Nether- 
lands and Germany, complain of 
the very moderate precaution of the 
court of Vienna for the safety of 
provinces that are upwards of 200 
leagues distant from the centre of 
its dominions. 
They pretend that the sovereign- 
ty of the French nation is injured 
by the establishment of a concert, 
whose first view has been to save 
the only lawful sovereign of France, 
whilst they, in the mean while, dai- 
ly attack and provoke all the sove- 
reigns of Europe in the most incon- 
siderate manner, and with the bit- 
terest invectives. In short, the 
dispute with the crowns the parti- 
cipation and the right of interfering 
in, or being concerned about the 
consequences of their new consti- 
tution; whilst they, with all their 
might, endeavour to subvert all go- 
vernments, by spreading all over 
Europe the bane of seduction and 
insurrection. , 
The King of Hungary and Bohe- 
mia is thus entitled to call in the 
support of all Europe, in a cause 
that concerns the honour and safe- 
ty of all governments, and he ar- 
raigns the abettors of so unjust and 
heinous an attack before the tribu- 
nal of the universe and posterity, as 
being answerable for all the evils 
that are the unavoidable conse- 
quences of war. 
Vienna, July 5, 1792. 
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